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How to Design Organisational Culture

How to Design Organisational Culture

Shaping organisational culture is a popular topic. And for good reason, the culture that we exist within influences how we perform and, therefore, the results an organisation can achieve. While most companies and leaders collectively explore what they think their...

Dominance

Dominance

Two ears, two eyes, one mouth. The paradox of being one of the “top dogs” Like many of our animal cousins, we humans often find ourselves living and working in social hierarchies. The formation of a natural order where, at least at a group level, some people have more...

The Leaders Engaging Brains

The Leaders Engaging Brains

The leaders of today are interested in using the insights from neuroscience to more effectively shape strategy, create a powerful culture and deliver performance that everyone benefits from. On Tuesday I delivered a keynote to around 200 leaders in Wales. Having been...

Should Female Leadership Training Be Different

Should Female Leadership Training Be Different

In this article we’re looking at whether female leadership training should be any different to male leadership training. My answer in brief is maybe, or at least, women & men should understand the biological differences in our brain and how this can enable them to...

Positioning Leadership Trainings

Positioning Leadership Trainings

Some leaders can feel that they’ve heard it all before. They can feel that they’ve been into lots of leadership trainings and by now they know what they’re doing and they really don’t have anything more to learn. This can be one viewpoint that leaders come from....

Neuroscience Transforming Leadership Trainings

Neuroscience Transforming Leadership Trainings

Leadership trainings can be based on guesswork and they can be based purely on what people have observed and people’s experience, but while it is hugely valuable that’s only one side of what’s going on. If we work only with guesswork, like many leadership trainings...

Leadership Training on Multitasking

Leadership Training on Multitasking

Multitasking does have a place in modern leadership training and there's an opportunity to go much deeper into it. The reason for this is because if our aim is to create leaders who are efficient and effectively leading people, then we need to look at multitasking...

Leadership Training-Handling Conflict

Leadership Training-Handling Conflict

Conflict is something that quite often leadership trainings can overcomplicate and make out it’s a very complex issue and a difficult issue to try to reduce conflict in different situations. From a neuroscience perspective it’s actually very simple and when we get...

Leadership Training Top Tips

Leadership Training Top Tips

I have three top tips for leadership trainings. The first is to hire leaders, second is to share and embody a vision, mission, purpose and values and the third is to lead by example. Let’s talk about a company that I believe do...

Leadership Training Myths

Leadership Training Myths

Leadership Training myths look at the common misunderstandings that end up devaluing leadership trainings. Leadership training myths cost companies dearly. I agree that at sometimes in leadership training an element of...

Leadership Training and the Demonization of Stress

Leadership Training and the Demonization of Stress

In my experience, a lot of leadership trainings can demonize stress. They can make it out to be this terrible thing that has all these negative impacts on the body and mind, on productivity, efficiency and on effectiveness in getting the results that you want. ...

Why thinking harder isn’t always more efficient

Why thinking harder isn’t always more efficient

How often do you find yourself struggling to come up with a genius idea? Perhaps you have a deadline looming and you know you need to go into that meeting with a great idea, something that is going to impress the team. You’ve set aside 60 minutes to nail it – the rest...

Paper Power in Leadership

Paper Power in Leadership

Leading people often involves evoking emotion in them. We know the power of being in an emotional state to elicit it in others, but have you considered the power of paper in evoking emotion? An emotional state means that a person has certain chemicals flying around...

Trusting Leadership

Trusting Leadership

Most people would agree that leading a team or a company or even a single individual becomes easier if you have their trust. Neuro-chemically people change when they trust or do not trust people. Higher levels of oxytocin are...

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